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Nov 22, 2018
Robyn Blaber
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it was amazing
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If Douglas Adams would have rewritten The Screwtape Letters, I'm sure you would have ended up with something not too far from Good Omens. It had my wrapped attention from cover to cover. Practically every line had some humorous aspect worth... well first of all laughing at and second of all, considering for its deeper humour. Deep in the text, there really was a valuable moral and a fairly stern commentary on Christianity in general, but anyone ignoring that will have anecdotes, witticisms and i
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OK, before everyone flips out at me because I didn't like this book - let me caveat: The writing was superb, and I definitely thought it was funny. However, I think this solidified for me that Neil Gaiman just isn't my thing. The humor was so British, that is the only way I can describe it. I can respect that it was well written, but I couldn't wait for it to be over. Also, I read the e-book edition, and while footnotes for e-books are usually tough to deal with, these were particularly bad (I g
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